We provide consulting services to all of our clients at little or no cost (service depends on sales and ability of clients to cover, typically, transportation related costs and lodging). Go to www.sustainablegreenaquaculture.com for detailed information about how we can help.

FIELD PROVEN TOOLS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF VIBRIO ECOLOGY in SHRIMP (AND FISH) FARMS AND HATCHERIES. EMS PREVENTION PAPER HERE.PRO4000x, in a repeat of testing done prior was found to reduce "green" vibrio loads. Go HERE for more information.

A strain of a common marine bacterium, Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the cause of EMS (Early Mortality Syndrome). Early on researchers thought that perhaps the ability to produce disease was related to the presence of a virus that infects the bacterium (called a bacteriophage). Subsequent research failed to corroborate this and the current theory is that small extrachromosomal circular pieces of DNA (called plasmids) are responsible for toxin production. Want more information? Go to this presentation. Ecuador 2014

Our CLIENTS REPORT that the use of our AQUAPRO products have resulted in:

Cleaner pond bottoms

Reduced blue green algae loads

Less water exchange needed

Reduced green vibrio counts

Reduced overall vibrio loads

Reduced ammonia levels

Reduced disease outbreaks

Increased profits

Better feed efficiency

Healthier shrimp

TARGETED DELIVERY to the pond bottom delivers more than 60 billion CFU per tablet of bacterial potential directly to where you want the bacteria!

ONLY PRO 4000X tablets do this. All other products are highly diluted by the time they reach the pond bottoms (if they even do).

DISTRIBUTOR INQUIRIES WELCOME.

Our bacteria have been in use since the late 1980's, making us one of the first companies to sell products of this nature.

Our tablets work great in Koi Ponds, golf course ponds, lakes, etc.

PRO 4000X tablets targeted delivery >64 billion CFU per tablet focused on areas where there are problems with overwhelming numbers of bacteria.

NEW Minitabs! 1000 tablets per kg

NEW AND IMPROVED TABLET DESIGN Increased stability with higher bacterial counts. See Bioremediation tab above (PRO4000x). The Publications tab leads to a page with many PDF files that will help you decide if this is the tool for you. A number of clients have commented upon their experiences with the tablets. The tablets work and you will see the benefit for a fraction of the cost of what you would expect to pay.

DON'T be mislead by low titer cheap products. The bacteria in these products are not-super bacteria which is why they have to be added repeatedly. Less bacteria to start only makes the product you buy cost less. It is no assurance that there will be enough bacteria added to impact the water quality. Targeted delivery makes much more sense than adding products to the water column.

Our products work in all bodies of water, whether they have fish or shrimp in them for food production or koi ponds. They also work in golf courses, fresh water and salt water, etc. Everywhere you look today companies are selling technologies to grow microbes in-situ on farm sites or mixtures of various microorganisms for use in improving water quality for aquaculture operations. Fancy glossy publications are the norm showing the results of field trials that often leave out things like replicate numbers, comparison with prior performance or truly meaningful tools for determining efficacy, etc.Visit our Publications page for downloadable content describing our products. On our Presentations page we have a downloadable presentation that describes our philosophy and why we think that PRO4000X makes more sense than the use of other types of products. If you have questions, please e-mail us or fill out the contact information and send it along! Our News page contains information that might be of interest relevant to this product line with links to our other web sites featuring our products (www.aqua-in-tech.com) and our services (www.sustainablegreenaquaculture.com and www.shrimpaquaculture.com). Our product web site only works with IE browsers. The term probiotic is bandied about freely and loosely raising the specter of unrealistic expectations. It is unfortunate but far too often that tools that are being touted as being developed using the science of aquaculture are really little more than pseudoscientific devices to persuade farmers who are not scientists to part with their money. Often I tell clients that beware of products that have been made for them and not their animals. Correlative statistics are often used to prove points when there are no scientifically sound mechanisms that can possibly explain the observed benefit. Far too many people fail to understand that correlation does not mean causation. Even many scientists don't appreciate this subtlety. An excellent example of this is noticed when survivals are good and growth is good and the managers are adding materials to the ponds, they believe, to bring this about. Since no controls are run there is nothing to measure performance against. Even if there are controls all too frequently there are serious experimental design flaws that undermine the value of the data.

Farmers spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on products that cannot be doing anything. This includes low titer (titer refers to the numbers of bacteria or spores) products that contain dead organisms, anaerobic bacteria that die as soon as they contact oxygen, photosynthetic bacteria that cannot tolerate the high oxygen levels typical of well aerated high density culture rearing environments, various bacterial species that can not grow in the aquatic environments that they are being added to and so forth. Several products that are in wide use have no scientific basis at all for them working. They are peddled in fancy packages and the sales pitch is akin to don't be left out; your neighbors are using the product and so should you. This is despite the fact that any reputable microbiologist will be glad to tell you that there is no scientific basis for them to work.

DON'T be mislead by low titer cheap products. The bacteria in these products are not-super bacteria which is why they have to be added repeatedly. Less bacteria to start only makes the product you buy cost less. It is no assurance that there will be enough bacteria added to impact the water quality. Targeted approach is a logical way to deliver large numbers of potential bacteria directly into problem areas. At AquaInTech, we understand these limitations and our products are composed of bacterial strains that have been proven to work in aquatic ecosystems. These are tools for bioremediation, not probiotics. We do not believe that the evidence that is available supports the use of this term for use in aquaculture and that while there are products that might work in this manner, the science does not support the definition that is widely agreed upon. We work closely with a company that has more than 30 years of experience in the manufacture of a wide variety of tools for use in bioremediation in agriculture. The bacterial strains in our leas products are patented. They were tested in catfish ponds in the US some 20 years ago and resulted in improved profitability in several trials.

An interesting analogy for the use of these microbial products is that of a screwdriver. Lets suppose you have a screw you need to take out of a piece of wood but when you try to use your screwdriver it will not fit onto the screw head. You have no other screwdrivers and there are no others available. You might very well conclude that screwdrivers don't work. Our products are tools. Each environment is unique. How well the tool works is really a result of how it is used. You should determine optimum frequency and dosage levels for your particular environments. The bacteria in the products degrade organic matter, that we and our customers know for sure. Visit our updated web site www.aqua-in-tech.com for more information on our other products.PROBIOTIC DEFINITION: Living organisms, typically bacteria or fungi (yeast), that when ingested have a beneficial impact on the host's health. The organisms cannot be dead and the benefit requires an interaction between the organisms and the host. The benefit is typically in terms of the production of nutrients that the host can not manufacture or in some cases competitive exclusion of potential pathogens. The EU has disallowed all claims regarding the use of probiotics in humans and there is only one probiotic approved by the FDA for use in animals, a combination of 27 strains fed to chickens. The truth is that the concept, while there are many anecdotal reports to support it, is still considered to be scientifically unverified and far from being a scientifically sound concept in the manner which it is typically being used. There is no doubt whatsoever that some bacteria play an important role in nutrition and health. This does not mean however that all bacteria do this and that the impact will always be positive. I do not believe that the situation is hopeless though. See the Probiotics tab for more information. It is likely that only a very few, if any, of the products sold for use in aquaculture truly qualify as probiotics by definition. The universally agreed upon definition requires that the bacteria be alive, that the colonize the animals gut and that they provide a health benefit by doing so. Living bacteria are typically unable to tolerate the stress of being milled into feeds, although our product, consisting of heat resistant spores, does not have this problem. Shrimp have small (short) guts and molt the front and rear end repeatedly through out their growth cycles. Colonizing stably would be possible on a relative small portion of the gut and most studies suggest that there is no stable colonized bacterial population. It varies with diet and environment.

Bacillus, gram positive bacteria that form spores, are the only suitable bacteria for use in bioremediation products.